Ana (Anabel) Olmedo Gonzalez, NCPS

Ana (Anabel) Olmedo Gonzalez offers calm, down-to-earth support for people facing big life changes and midlife concerns. She listens without judgement and helps clients make sense of difficult feelings. Her approach suits those who want a thoughtful, compassionate space to talk through stress, grief, or uncertainty.

Ana brings seven years' experience working in talking therapy settings alongside private practice. She holds NCPS accreditation, and she has practised in the NHS as part of Talking Therapy Services as well as in private practice in Exeter. Sessions are shaped around what each person needs rather than a fixed template.

Her work is rooted in client-centred ways of working, with mindfulness techniques and elements drawn from existential thinking. She also draws on emotion-focused methods to help people notice and process difficult feelings in the room. Conversations tend to be practical and reflective, with attention to body awareness when helpful.

Ana has particular experience supporting people with depression, bereavement including suicide loss, and complex trauma. She also helps with anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, life purpose, caregiver stress, and career concerns. Her wider focus includes ageing, immigration issues, and family of origin matters.

Sessions are offered in English and Spanish. The emphasis is on creating steady progress at a pace that feels right for each person, with attention to everyday needs and longer-term meaning.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Ana uses client-centred work to prioritise the person's immediate concerns and to follow whatever matters most to them in a session. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and creating space for people to find their own answers, which can work well across talking formats.

She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to help people identify and sit with strong feelings and to notice patterns in close relationships. These methods support work on grief, intimacy-related issues, and attachment concerns. Existential influences help when clients want to talk about life purpose, meaning, and the shifts that come with midlife changes.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Ana will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and then try methods that suit each person. That collaborative discussion helps shape sessions so they feel useful and relevant.

Please confirm the therapist's current session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific online options. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into daily life, for example by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a workday, or offering a quieter way to speak without needing to be on camera. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt these methods effectively across different ways of meeting, so practical fit and therapist-client rapport are the main factors to consider.